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What Lies Beneath Those Urban Settings? The Value of Bioarchaeology in Understanding the Complexities of Urban Health and Well-Being. (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). What Lies Beneath Those Urban Settings? The Value of Bioarchaeology in Understanding the Complexities of Urban Health and Well-Being. In T. Betsinger, & S. DeWitte (Eds.), The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities (485-510). Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]

Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present. (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present. In S. Sheridan, & L. Gregoricka (Eds.), Purposeful pain: bioarchaeological and biocultural perspective on the embodiment of intentional suffering (21-38). Springer Verlag

Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465-3

This chapter considers how paleopathology can help people beyond academia to appreciate how and why humans and their diseases have co-evolved alongside changes in their environment, why we still have diseases that we thought had long gone into the hi... Read More about Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future.

Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification (2020)
Book Chapter
Davies-Barrett, A., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. (2020). Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465-8

Particulate air pollution—smoke, chemicals, pollens, molds, animal waste, sand, and other particles—is a serious health issue today, causing irritation and inflammation of the respiratory tract, directly resulting in respiratory conditions such as ma... Read More about Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification.

The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2020). The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs. In L. Friedman, M. Dedicoat, & P. Davies (Eds.), Clinical Tuberculosis. (6th). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351249980-1

This chapter considers the primary evidence for tuberculosis (TB) in the past-in the remains of people themselves-chart the distribution of the infection through time from a global perspective, and consider historical data for the presence of the dis... Read More about The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs.

Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2020). Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK. In K. Squires, D. Errickson, & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains :a global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology (133-155). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_7

This chapter focuses on the ethical and practical considerations concerning archaeological human remains in the UK. It first contextualises the chapter by including a personal perspective of the author’s experience as a bioarchaeologist over the last... Read More about Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK.